"NEIRR - The New England Institute of Religious Research was founded in 1991 as a mission outreach to provide churches, secular organizations and concerned individuals with up-to-date research on cultic structures. The Institute also provides training for people who work with those caught up by such destructive groups. They personally meet with the members of various groups to discuss Behavioral/Biblical/Theological issues with them. Another important dimension of Institute ministry is to provide an emotionally and spiritually healing environment for ex-cult-members."

I. Scripture TwistingThis is the most important distinctive, from which all other distinctives flow. In Cults, there is a deficient concept of Church history or theological categories. Consequently Scripture is taken out of context, carelessly applied, and used to justify wrong conclusions (prooftexting). - Doctrine developed from historical books of the Bible. Here, the historical books of the Old and New Testaments (Exodus, Kings, Samuel, parts of Gospels, Acts, etc.) are used to derive authoritative doctrines. - Contextual chaos. Verses are pasted together(out-of-context) to prove a doctrine. - Mystical mush. Taking verses intended to be literal or are idiomatic and giving them a "spiritual" interpretation. Misinterpretation of the 144,000 from chapter 7 and 14. from the Book of Revelation ( a common misuse by most major cults)

World-wide Branches of the TPM organizationThe TPM/CPM organisation operates in different countries under different names; which serves as a survival tool. So when they are exposed as a cult in one country they could operate unaffected in others!!! Although some bigger branches have an attendence over 250-1000 members, most small regular (90%), only have smaller congregations of between 30-100 regular attendence. Again, as with all cults this organization too, use exaggerated numbers to misrepresent their success.(marketing tool). In Fact they are regularly losing their members to other genuine pentecostal churches. They will deny this fact and also spread a lie about such people (who leave after finally realizing the TPM folly they were caught-in).